Works excerpted from in this centuries-spanning paean to womankind include Tomás Victoria's O magnum mysterium, the Siciliana from Ottorino Respighi's Ancient Airs and Dances, "Le spectre de la rose" from Hector Berlioz's Les nuits d'été (sung by Elly Ameling) and the Love Scene from his Roméo et Juliette, Op. 1, "Venus, the bringer of peace" from Gustav Holst's tone poem The Planets, the Madrigal from Sergey Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 1, "In trutina" from Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis by Ralph Vaughan Williams, "O viridissima virga," by Hildegard von Bingen, a movement from Arvo Pärt's Fratres, an alleluia and fugue by Alan Hovhaness, John Taverner's Last Sleep of the Virgin, and more.

"The fresh-voiced Elly Ameling … creates an imaginative atmosphere in 'Le spectre' by her hushed tone."—Gramophone